Book excerpt: My hands smell of old leather and brass fittings and the decay of one hundred years. Gidon and I have just sat and looked through family photographs that he has kept in an old photo album that he found after his mother’s death. I can smell the age of the album, of the photos. The writing on the back is in German and in Czech. I wonder if any DNA has passed to my hands. It must have. Doris, Fritz, Ernst, Rosa. I go to the bathroom and scrub my hands but I can’t
When The Gidon Project came together, in November of 2017, Gidon Lev was 83 years old and there were about 80K rough draft words written and spread over a large number of documents. It was quite a challenge. The first thing that volunteer Mary Phillips did, in January of 2018, was to read over, summarize and collate these various files, which was an enormous task. The next step was to get some serious file version management implemented so that we didn't lose anything. As tha
